FIELDS OF GOLD BLANKET

I love botanical drawings, so I purchased a fabulous book from Kew Gardens with the most wonderful illustrations. There is a page within the book that features sunflowers, hellebores and opium poppy
seed heads and it made me think of the fields of sunflowers we
walked through on a lovely French holiday a few years ago.

I have always loved sunflowers with all of their connotations to heat and sunshine. Vincent Van Gogh, whose series of sunflower still life studies are legendary, saw these stunning flowers as a symbol of friendship and gratitude, so using them as the inspiration for a design was inevitable for me I guess. As wild poppies are commonplace in fields of sunflowers, it was logical that this design should feature
a representation of those as well.

You can find kits for this design in our shop by clicking on the link further down this page. You can also find the paper copy in the here and download versions by following links to Etsy and Ravelry in the images below.

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